May 2012
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Current card for ROH "Best in the World"
Here is the card so far for Ring of Honor’s “Best in the World” show, which is taking place at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, and will air live on IPPV on the 24th of June:
Special Challenge Match: Finlay vs Michael Elgin (w/Truth Martini)
3-Way Elimination Match for the ROH World TV Championship: Roderick Strong (c) vs Jay Lethal vs Tomasso Ciampa
Eddie Edwards vs...
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Scottish Wrestling this weekend
Thanks to our Scottish wrestling correspondent Ciaran O’Donnell for sending in the following information about three big shows in Scotland this weekend. (This was sent to me on Monday, but I’ve only gotten round to checking it today due to exams, so I’ve updated lineups where necessary.)
British Championship Wrestling returns to East Kilbride on Friday June 1st for a major show...
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PRWA "Raising Dignity 2012" results
Thanks to Josian Omed Vazquez Diaz for sending in these results of the Puerto Rico Wrestling Association’s show “Levantando La Dignitad 2012” (“Raising Dignity 2012”) which took place on Saturday at the Lajas Coliseum in Puerto Rico.
1. Mask vs Mask fight, Nikita vs. Masato Takemura. Winner Masato. It turned out that Nikita was X-James. Jean Carlos Rosado, General...
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Results - Infinite Promotions "51st State of...
Here are the results from the first ever Infinite Promotions show in Liverpool on Saturday, which included the opening fixtures of the British Wrestling Premier League:
Cyanide defeated Babyfaced Pitbull
British Wrestling Premier League: Zack Gibson (Liverpool) defeated Marc Morgan (Stoke) 2 falls to 0
Zero Gravity 4-Way: Dean McManus defeated LA Austin, Sean Daniels and Josh Bodom
El Ligero...
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Live review of PWG: Death To All But Metal
Thanks to Chad Simplicio for another excellent PWG review! He attended Death To All But Metal last night (May 25th).
Here it is:
5/25/12 PWG “Death to All But Metal” @ American Legion Post #308, Reseda, CA, USA
By Chad Simplicio
A large crowd was on hand for this Friday Night show to kick off Memorial Day Weekend, and everyone had to brave the Friday Rush Hour traffic to get...
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Infinite Promotions "51st State of Emergency"...
Tomorrow evening sees newly-formed UK wrestling company Infinite Promotions present their first-ever show, “51st State of Emergency”, at the Grand Central Hall in Liverpool. The show features a stacked card of many of the top wrestlers on the UK scene, and also includes the inaugural fixtures of the newly-conceived British Wrestling Premier League.
The Premier League will consist of...
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Best of British - News from the UK Wrestling Scene
Adrian here! Summer is on its way, and the wrestling season is entering full swing here in the UK. Plenty of news to report this week, and if like me you’re in the middle of exams, good luck!
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Fight Club Pro were at Planet Night Club in Wolverhampton on the 18th, with a show which featured a number of CZW stars. Here are the results:
MK McKinnon defeated Chuck Taylor
Dave Mastiff...
Message from Lee
Hello indy wrestling fans! I’d like to say thanks to the hundreds of people who have visited Indy Wrestling Express in the past week, and I would like to apologise for the lack of new content. I’m in my final weeks of university so I’ve been too busy to update the site, but everything will be back on track in the very near future. I’ll try and get the results and other news...
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CHIKARA Anniversario line ups (this weekend)
Saturday May 19th, 2012
The Palmer Center
4100 Green Pond Road in Easton, PA
Belltime = 7:00 PM : : Doors = 6:30 PM
*All Children 12 & Under Admitted FREE to this Event with a Paying Adult*
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Sunday May 20th, 2012
The Highline Ballroom
431 W. 16th Street in Manhattan, NY
Belltime = 1:00 PM : : Doors = 12:00 PM
CHIKARA Grand Championship:
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Best of British - News from the UK Wrestling Scene
XWA were at The Hexagon in Morecambe on the 12th for “War on the Shore VIII”. With a sell-out crowd in attendance, here’s what happened:
Hexagon Six-Way Number One Contender’s Match: Joey Hayes defeated Rockstar Spud, Nathan Cruz, El Ligero, Jynx and Dave Rayne to become the new number one contender to the XWA British Heavyweight Championship.
Tables Match: Sam Slam...
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Kevin Steen wins ROH title, cuts promo, eats cake...
The title says it all.
- Lee
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Review - ROH "Border Wars"
This took place on Saturday, the 12th of May in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. If you haven’t seen it and don’t want to know any spoilers, look away now.
THE GOOD
Kevin Steen vs Davey Richards (ROH World Title)
Like most people, I was desperate to see Steen walk out of Border Wars with the ROH title. With the face/heel roles overwhelmingly reversed, both wrestlers played to the crowd...
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Press release - SWA Wrestling
The following was sent in by James Tyler of the Scottish Wrestling Alliance, promoting the next SWA show in Glasgow on June 1st:
TNA Superstar Doug Williams Returns to Scotland; NWA Scottish Championship on the line & More June 1st, Glasgow
After the dramatic events of Rebirth, SWA will return with new challenges being made, old scores being settled and the elite of Scottish wrestling...
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CZW: Proving Grounds results
The following is liberated word for word from http://www.pwponderings.com because I want to go and get a glass of pineapple juice, and the extra two minutes I would spend rewriting these results could be spent drinking pineapple juice.
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Prelim matches
Dustin Rayz d Kid Osbourne
Alex Colon d Niles Young
Credit: PWInsider.com
PPV Begins
World Junior Heavyweight Championship: Drake...
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EVOLVE 13 results
The show took place in North Carolina last night.
1) Number one contender’s match: AR Fox vs Ricochet vs Samuray Del Sol vs Jigsaw
- AR Fox won
2) Silas Young defeated Adam Paige
3) Caleb Konley defeated Kyle Matthews
4) Alex Reynolds defeated Jake Manning
5) Low Ki defeated Jon Davis
6) Chuck Taylor defeated Mike Cruz
7) El Generico defeated Sami Callihan
8) Open The Freedom...
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ROH 'Border Wars' Live Coverage
Hi guys, Adrian here with live coverage of Ring of Honor’s “Border Wars” IPPV. The show is expected to start at 19:30 EST, or half past midnight over here in the UK. Stay tuned!
Initial Thoughts: It’s not letting me log in to my ROH account, and judging by several worried messages on the ROH Facebook page, I’m not alone. This could be a long night.
…And now...
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Line up for CZW - Proving Grounds
Combat Zone Wrestling are at the Parkwood Youth Organization in Philadelphia, PA at 19:30 EST (00:30 in the UK) tonight for ‘Proving Grounds’. The show will air live on IPPV at http://hybrident.tv for just $4.99 (about £3). Here’s the lineup:
No Rope Barbed Wire Match: Danny Havoc vs Drew Gulak
CZW World Heavyweight Championship Open Challenge: Masada (c) vs ???
CZW...
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EVOLVE 12 results
The show took place in North Carolina last night.
Jake Manning won a triple threat (vs Caleb Konley vs Adam Page)
Alex Reynolds defeated Mike Cruz
Low Ki defeated Jigsaw
Fit Finlay defeated Jon Davis
Chuck Taylor & Silas Young defeated Johnny Gargano & Samuray Del Sol
Ricochet defeated El Generico
Evolution’s End: AR Fox defeated Sami Callihan.
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Live coverage this weekend
We won’t have live coverage of EVOLVE 12 tonight, but you should be able to find it at http://www.pwponderings.com and http://www.cheap-heat.com
We’ll have the EVOLVE results up have the show.
We will have live coverage of Ring Of Honor Border Wars tomorrow. EVOLVE have another show, as do CZW, but we’ll just have those results up afterwards.
You can watch the EVOLVE pay...
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Best of British - News from the UK Wrestling Scene
Grand Pro Wrestling (GPW) were at the Rose Club in Hindley, Lancashire on the 4th of May for “Only The Strong Survive”, featuring two huge “Survivor Series”-style matches and more:
The show started with a tribute to the late Dom Travis.
Survivor Series Match: Ste ‘Bin’ Mann, ‘Dangerous’ Damon Leigh, L.A. Austin and Prof. Mike Holmes defeated...
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Live report - ICW "Up In Smoke"
Thanks to Ciaran O’Donnell for sending in this report from Insane Championship Wrestling’s “Up In Smoke” show on the 6th of May. The event was taped for television, and will air on Mychannel (Sky Channel 219) soon. Check out http://www.insanewrestling.co.uk/ for more info. Now to hand you over to Ciaran:
Insane Championship Wrestling - “Up In Smoke”
The...
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EVOLVE IPPV hype videos
EVOLVE have released two final hype videos for this weekend’s pay per views. The first features Jon Davis talking about his opponents Finlay and Low Ki.
The second documents the history of the Sami Callihan/AR Fox feud, which will climax at EVOLVE 12.
You can order the shows at WWNLive.com. Full line ups and prices for both shows are available in the post below this one on the Indy...
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EVOLVE IPPV line ups (for this weekend
Evolution’s End: Sami Callihan vs AR Fox (No DQ outside the ring)
Fit Finlay vs Jon Davis
El Generico vs Ricochet
Low Ki vs Jigsaw
Johnny Gargano & Samuray Del Sol vs Chuck Taylor & Silas Young
Alex Reynolds vs Mike Cruz
Caleb Konley vs Adam Page vs Jake Manning
Open The Freedom Gate championship: Johnny Gargano vs Winner of the triple threat
Number one contender’s...
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Line up for Ring Of Honor: Border Wars
Saturday, May 12, 2012 07:30pm EDT
Ted Reeve Arena
175 Main Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M4E 2W2
ROH World Championship: Davey Richards (c) vs Kevin Steen
ROH TV Championship: Roderick Strong vs Fit Finlay
ROH Tag Team Championship - Fight Without Honor: Jay & Mark Briscoe (champions) vs Wrestling’s Greatest Tag Team (Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin)
Eddie Edwards...
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CM Punk vs Bryan Danielson (video)
Ring Of Honor have made the first ROH meeting between CM Punk and Bryan “Daniel Bryan” Danielson available for free online, as well as an un-televised Briscoes/House Of Truth match. Here they are:
Thoughts: ROH uploaded this shortly after Punk vs Bryan was announced for the next WWE pay per view? What a coincidence! Ok, not really. Smart move there from Ring Of Honor.
I’m...
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Review - PWS: Refuse 2 Lose 2012
Thanks very much to Tony from http://www.shiningwizards.com for another great review. This one is from Pro Wrestling Syndicate: Refuse 2 Lose 2012, which took place on Friday the 4th of May. I’ll hand you over to him:
I went to the PWS Refuse to Lose show in Rahway Friday night with my friend Pete and his nine year old son Pete. Here is what went down.
We arrived at the building around...
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Results from #Demboys: Pro Wrestling Revival
Dem boys Jay and Mark Briscoe held their own wrestling show in Delaware on Friday the 4th of May. Here are the results:
Pre show:
PPW Tag Team Championship: American Standard (c) vs D-Line vs Pretty Ugly
- American Standard retained
Main show:
1) Homicide defeated Ryan McBride
2) Jigsaw vs Andy “Right Leg” Ridge vs Azireal vs Aden Chambers
- Azireal won
3) Mia Yim defeated...
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May is Kevin Steen's month
Kevin Steen talks about his birthday, and why he needs to win the Ring Of Honor world title at Border Wars:
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Results from PWS: Refuse 2 Lose 2012
Pro Wrestling Syndicate: Refuse 2 Lose 2012 took place on Friday (the 4th of May) in New Jersey. Thanks to David Anderson for sharing the results, which I believe he obtained from the PWS Facebook page:
1) Mike Dennis defeated QT Marshall
2) The Phat Pack won a Tag Team Gauntlet match to become #1 contenders to the Tag Team Titles held by The Lone Rangers
3) Amazing Red beat Dan Maff
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FreeProWrestling.com exclusive match
The good people of Absolute Intense Wrestling have granted the good people of Free Pro Wrestling an exclusive match, that you won’t see anywhere else (well, except the DVD). The match will be uploaded tonight, around 9 or 10 EST. I was going to give cryptic hints as to what the match will be, until I noticed that it’s already been announced that it’s Johnny Gargano vs Akira...
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Cinco De Mayo today! Feat. EVOLVE matches
I think the EVOLVE matches are taking place hourly. The website said “card subject to change”, but didn’t actually feature a card, so I’m not sure what matches are booked. Let me know via Twitter or email if you know please!
- Lee
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Pro Wrestling Syndicate : Refuse 2 Lose 2012...
The line up is on the poster, but I’ll write it here too since some of the writing is small.
PWS Championship: Sami Callihan (c) vs Jay Lethal
Matt Hardy vs Colt Cabana
Jerry Lynn vs Marty Janetty
Young Bucks vs Reality Check
Amazing Red vs Dan Maff
Adam Cole vs Zema Ion vs Samuray Del Sol vs Brian XL
Maria Kanellis & Brittney Savage vs Reby Sky & Jillian Hall
Other names...
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Best of British - News from the UK Wrestling Scene
Pro Wrestling Elite were in Ayr Town Hall on the 27th of April. Here’s what happened:
BT Gunn and Lionheart defeated Fight Club
Wolfgang defeated Joe Coffey
Noam Dar defeated Mark Haskins
Andy Wild defeated Mikey Whiplash
Carmel defeated Kay Lee Ray
El Ligero defeated Kris Travis, Martin Kirby and Joey Hayes
Thoughts: Sounds great. Apparently the main event in particular was awesome,...
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Akira Tozawa coming to PCW!
Another date has been added to Akira Tozawa’s UK tour; he will be facing El Ligero at Preston City Wrestling: Guild Wars on the 2nd of June! The show would take place at Lava Ignite in Preston (PR1 3BU). Here is the full card:
Preston City Wrestling Championship: T-Bone (c) vs Bubblegum
Dragon Gate vs UK number 1: Akira Tozawa v El Ligero
Kris Travis v Dave Mastiff
Bra &...
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Davey Richards injury update
Ring Of Honor world champion Davey Richards provided some updates on his injury via his Twitter account:
“Thanks everyone I’m ok. Nothing too serious besides a missed flight and some soreness! Yay for chiropractors boo to texting and driving!”
“To clarify: I wasn’t texting and driving the idiot who rear ended us was.”
“And nobody worry about Border...
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Shining Wizards interview with Drew Gulak
Thanks very much to the Shining Wizards for sending this excerpt of the recent interview with Drew Gulak along:
Recently, the Shining Wizards (www.shiningwizards.com) spoke with “The University City Stretcher” Drew Gulak about his upcoming No Rope Barbed Wire Death Match against Danny Havoc for Combat Zone Wrestling, May 12th:
On how his match with Danny Havoc fits into his plan for...
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New EVOLVE videos (feat. Finlay and Sami Callihan)
Two new videos promoting the upcoming EVOLVE shows are now on Youtube. The first features former WWE and WCW star Fit Finlay talking about his upcoming match with Jon Davis: The second features Sami Callihan, as he discusses his “Evolution’s End” match with AR Fox.
Both of those matches will take place at EVOLVE 12, in North Carolina on the 12th of May.
Thoughts: I...
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Davey Richards in a car accident
According to http://www.puroresuspirit.com and various other websites, Ring Of Honor world champion and IWGP junior heavyweight tag team champion Davey Richards has been in a car accident, and therefore won’t be competing at New Japan Pro Wrestling “40th Anniversary Dontaku 2012” tomorrow in Fukuoka. Richards and Romero have since been stripped of their tag belts, though a match...
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John Morrison stars in "The Negotiator" (video...
Former WWE star John Morrison has a new job; he is the Negotiator.
Thoughts: You know what’s good about your favourite WWE wrestler leaving the company? You get to post about him on your indy blog. Very funny stuff from Hennigan. He has charisma, that simply wasn’t channelled well in the latter portion of his WWE run (basically after he turned babyface).
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April 2012
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Updated EVOLVE 12 line up
Evolution’s End: Sami Callihan vs AR Fox (No DQ outside the ring)
El Generico vs Ricochet
Finlay vs Jon Davis
Low Ki vs Jigsaw
Johnny Gargano & Samuray Del Sol vs Chuck Taylor & Silas Young
Thoughts: Generico vs Ricochet and FInlay vs Davis could be awesome. This could be a breakout weekend for Davis. This show is set to make up for what I thought was a lacklustre EVOLVE 11.
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